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Half Bad By Sally Green: Chapter Summary

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The scene starts in the beginning of the book, Half Bad by Sally Green, when Nathan was a baby and his mother dies, then his father runs away. This fan fiction explains why/how Nathan's mother died and why Marcus ran away. When everyone saw Nathan's mother holding him, they were all scared or surprised. they couldn’t believe that she actually had a child with a black witch and kept him.. Does she know how big of a threat he could be? Nathan's mother is a white witch, but his father is the worst black witch that ever existed. Nathan's mother kept getting notifications such as, "any .5 white, .5 black witch can not see white witches unless we know of this meet." She was getting more and more annoyed by notification she received. Even though she was annoyed about of the new rules, she tried following the best she could. …show more content…

Marcus had chose not to attend, because he could not stand those white witches. When Nathan's mother, arrived they told her, "Kill the baby, or we will come after you, and kill you. We would tell everyone you committed suicide, because you couldn't handle it." Before saying anything, she was frozen in shock, and couldn't move any muscle in her body even if she tried to with all her strength. She was not expecting them to tell her to go kill her baby to save her own life. Her heart was pounding out of her chest almost as you could hear her heart beat. Then her brain start to bang as if it was trying to break out of her skull.. but she had found her answer. She silently sighed, and agreed to do it. Her mind was racing with so many different thoughts after the meeting, but some really stood out to her like. "How will Marcus ever forgive me? How will Marcus handle it? Am I doing the right

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